The terrorists and their backers will pay unimaginable costs and we will pursue them to the end of the earth and deliver justice for the attack on innocent tourists in Kashmir’s Pahalgam, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday.
Addressing a rally in Bihar’s Madhubani, Modi said: “From the soil of Bihar I tell the whole world that India will identify them and punish every terrorist and their backers. We will pursue them to the end of the earth. India’s spirit will never be broken by terrorism. Terrorism will not go unpunished.”
“Every effort will be made to ensure justice is done,” he said, adding that the entire country is grieving the merciless killings.
“Some of the victims speak Bengali, some Kannada, some Marathi, some Gujarati, some Oriya or some from the land of Bihar. Some lost their brother, some son, some life partner. But the attack is not just on the innocent tourists, but on the soul of India,” he said, adding that India stands together in the face of terrorism.
“From Kargil to Kanyakumari we have the same anger, some grief,” he said, adding that the terrorists dared to attack the soul of India.
He said whoever orchestrated and conspired this attack will be punished beyond their imagination and it is now time that the few remaining hubs of terrorism are dismantled.
“Anyone who believes in humanity is with us,” the PM said, thanking the world leaders for their support in the time of crisis.
India’s Strong Response To Pakistan
The Indian Government on Wednesday evening suspended the decades-old Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan indefinitely as a part of some strict measures taken against Islamabad over the “cross-border linkages” that emerged during the investigation into the dastardly Pahalgam terror attack, which saw the death of 26 tourists, mostly Hindus, including a foreign national.
The decisions were taken at the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The CCS is the country’s highest decision-making body on national security.
“In the briefing to the CCS, the cross-border linkages of the terrorist attack were brought out. It was noted that this attack came in the wake of the successful holding of elections in the Union Territory and its steady progress towards economic growth and development,” an official statement by the Ministry of External Affairs stated.
Announcing the measure, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said, “In the briefing to the CCS, the cross-border linkages of the terrorist attack were brought out. It was noted that this attack came in the wake of the successful holding of elections in the Union Territory and its steady progress towards economic growth and development.”
(With inputs from IBNS)
